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A pomegranate is a round fruit with a thick skin. Inside it is packed with lots of small juicy red seeds, each in its own shiny coat. Those seeds are the part you eat; the pale bitter stuff around them you pull away. The juice stains. The name is old. It came through French from words that meant something like “seeded apple”: pome is an old word for a fruit like an apple, and the other half means “with many seeds.” French later used the same fruit name, grenade, for the weapon that scatters, because of the way the seeds sit packed inside. That link is real, not a folk story. In English the word is just the fruit (and the tree). It is a long word, and often trip in the middle.
組成From older French pome grenate / pomme grenade, “seeded apple”: pome (apple, fruit) + a piece meaning full of seeds (Latin grānātum). Modern French grenade is the same fruit name.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pomegranatenoun/ˈpɒmɪ(ˌ)ɡɹænɪt/
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The fruit of the Punica granatum, about the size of an orange with a thick, hard, reddish skin enclosing many seeds, each with an edible pink or red pulp tasting both sweet and tart.
- Here the blue fig with luſcious juice o'erflows, / With deeper red the full pomegranate glows, / The branch here bends beneath the weighty pear, / And verdant olives flouriſh round the year.
- In the walls of the cells, elevated on seven steps of Parian marble, various statutes stood in niches, and those walls were ornamented with the pomegranate consecrated to Isis.
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The shrub or small tree that bears the fruit.
- I finish'd this day with a walke in the greate garden of the Thuilleries, which is rarely contrived for privacy, shade, or company, by groves, plantations of tall trees, especialy that in yᵉ middle, being of elmes, another of mulberys. There is a labyrinth of cypresse, noble hedges of pomegranates, fountaines, fishponds, and an aviary.
- On her fair cheek’s unfading hue, / The young pomegranate’s blossoms strew / Their bloom in blushes ever new— […]
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A dark red or orange-red colour, like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit.
- Sally at last appeared, all in a flutter of ribbons and scarfs, whose bright, high colors assorted well with the ultramarine blue of her dress, and the vivid pomegranate hue of her cheeks.
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derogatoryobsoleteA person of British descent, especially one who has (recently) immigrated to Australia; a pom, a pommy.
pomegranateadj/ˈpɒmɪ(ˌ)ɡɹænɪt/
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Of a colour like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit; dark red or orange-red.
- Many people would think Miss Wilcox, standing there in her blue merino dress and pomegranate ribbon, a very agreeable woman.
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